I have server logs back to 99 that i've got to put into an excel document or a my-sql document... i can do that. All except for one thing. I've got 3 messages in my email with many many attachemts in each. these attachments are just seperate mail messages recieved from the server. So my question is is how do i extract the attachments information into one or more excel documents???? I know vb somewhat. But not as much as i thought i did. How would i go about doing this?? any pointers, or any ideas or anything. I've got a huge need for this, i really don't want to go though and extract nearly 700 messages from this one email message. I've got office xp and vb 6 installed on my computer so the applications code will work i'm sure. I use Outlook xp for my email and i could use forms or whatever i need to to do this, i just need some help on where to go and what to do. Thank you for anything - Mike